A PAIR OF EMPIRE STYLE GILT BRONZE SIXTEEN LIGHT CHANDELIERS, 20th century

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE STYLE GILT BRONZE SIXTEEN LIGHT CHANDELIERS, 20th century

The inverted domed wells pierced and cast with panels of rosettes and leafy ornament intersected by flambeau torches above leaf-wrapped pine cone terminals, the circlets cast with palm motifs and applied with masks of Minerva issuing bifurcating scroll branches with eagle head terminals supporting campana-shaped nozzles, the chain suspension with conforming coronas
43in. (109cm) diam (2)

Lot Essay

The Minerva masks and palm enriched circlets of these chandeliers are strongly related in design to a chandelier illustrated in Vergoldete Bronzen (see H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vol. I. Munich, 1986. p.306.).

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